[Anyone] Boom!

[Thos Myers]

Where did you get this one, mikeintaos?



On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Mike in Taos wrote:

> It is surely obvious now to anybody with even a basic understanding of
> history, politics and the nature of fascism that something revolutionary has
> to be done within months -- if not weeks -- if we are to preserve world
> peace.
>
> Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
>
> Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the
> Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy
> Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal. It is, sadly,
> the only response that this repugnant and acutely dangerous political entity
> will understand.
>
> The tragedy is that innocent people will die. But not many. Iran's missiles
> and rockets of mass destruction are guarded and maintained by men with the
> highest of security clearance and thus supportive of the Tehran regime. They
> are dedicated to war and, thus, will die in war.
>
> Frankly, it would be churlish of the civilized world to deny martyrdom to
> those who seem so intent on its pursuance. Most important, a limited nuclear
> attack on Iran will save thousands if not millions of lives.
>
> The spasm of reaction from many will be that this is barbaric and
> unacceptable. Yet a better response would be to ask if there is any sensible
> alternative. Diplomacy, kindness and compromise have failed and the Iranian
> leadership is still obsessed with all-out war against anybody it considers
> an enemy.
>
> Its motives are beyond question, its capability equally so. It is spending
> billions of dollars on a whole range of anti-ship, anti-aircraft and
> anti-personnel missiles, rockets and ballistic weapons:
>
> The Shahab 3ER missile, with a range of more than 2,000 km, and the BM25 and
> accompanying launchers, which are so powerful that they can hit targets in
> Europe. Raad missiles with a range of 350km. The Misaq anti-aircraft
> missile, which can be fired from the shoulder. The Fajar 3 radar-evading
> missile and the Ajdar underwater missile, which travels at an
> extraordinarily high speed and is almost impossible to intercept. The Zaltal
> and the Fatah 110 rocket, the Scud B and Scud C and the BM25 with a range of
> 3,500 kms.
>
> Iran is also developing enormous propellant ballistic missiles and began a
> space program almost a decade ago that will enable it to bomb the United
> States. It is also assumed in intelligence circles that Tehran has Russian
> Kh55 cruise missiles stolen from Ukraine which are now being copied in large
> numbers by Iranian scientists.
>
> Comparisons to the Nazis in the 1930s are unfair -- to the Nazis. Hitler had
> the French army, the largest in Europe, on his border and millions of Soviet
> infantry just a few hours march away. Iran has no aggressive enemies in the
> region.
>
> Its fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, controls a brutal police state,
> finances international terror and provokes bloody wars in foreign countries.
> It is unimaginably wealthy because of its oil revenues and is committed, in
> its leader's words, to "rolling back 300 years of Western ascendancy" and
> wiping another nation, Israel, from the face of the earth.
>
> A conventional attack would be insufficient because Iran and its allies seem
> only to listen to power and threat. Better limited pain now than universal
> suffering in five years.
>
> The usual suspects will complain. The post-Christian churches, the Marxists
> in Taos including Tommy Myers, the fellow travelers and fifth columnists.
> But then, the same sort of people moaned and condemned in 1938. They were
> clearly wrong then. They would be just as wrong now.
>
>
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